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The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby

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Wolfe’s first book, The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby (1964), is a collection of essays satirizing American trends and celebrities of the 1960s. That work—especially the title piece about car customizers, which was reported to have been a lengthy memo to his editor at Esquire—helped give rise to New…
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In New Journalism: From muckraking to Wolfe, Talese, and Capote
…result was Wolfe’s now-famous “The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby” (anthologized in his 1964 book by the same name), an energetic piece that became a model of what New Journalism could achieve. In 1973 Wolfe published The New Journalism, in which he explicated the features of the genre. He went…
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